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Numbers matter: Join us in reporting violations of environmental rights
The Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) is campaigning for increased reporting of environmental crimes through the National Environmental Crimes and Incidents Hotline (0800 205 005). The CER argues that the South African government, specifically the Treasury, underinvests in compliance monitoring and enforcement, which violates the constitutional right to a healthy environment. Because the hotline is the only mechanism where reports are centrally collated and published annually by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), the CER asserts that higher reporting numbers are necessary to provide an accurate picture of the scale of violations and to pressure the state to allocate more funding and personnel to enforcement.
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